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   kate | Aug 22, 2006 12:56am | #1

   Bump...for whatever it's worth, I parged my foundation with Surewall, a fibered concrete product.  It's made by other companies under names like quikwall.  It takes no particular skill to apply - I just troweled it on & smoothed it out..  I think it looks fine, but my house is on the rustic side.  (Truly colonial colonial, built in 1695.)

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   BobKovacs | Aug 22, 2006 12:59am | #2

   You won't actually "roll" it on- you'll likely have to trowel it on, and then use a rubber float to smooth it out.   Also, you may not be able to buy Dryvit by name, as it's typically only sold to professional installers.

   Bob

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   woodroe | Aug 22, 2006 02:35am | #4

   Thanks Bob, I already have the stuf from Dryvit. I"m not sure that you trowel this one on though. Have you applied it before? Their product I'm using is called "sandpebble fine". The name has nothing to do with color.

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   BobKovacs | Aug 22, 2006 02:40am | #5

   Never used that one in particular, but I've also never seen any of their products get "rolled" on.   I'd just follow the manufacturer's instructions, and you should be fine.

   Bob

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   bigman | Aug 22, 2006 01:40am | #3

   Check out Flex Coat and Tuff Coat at http://www.styronet.com

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   bigman | Aug 22, 2006 10:44pm | #7

   Ooops sorry its http://www.styro.net, flexible foundation coatings, about $65 for a 2 gallon bucket, special ordered from Lowes

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   jrnbj | Aug 22, 2006 04:46am | #6

   Just a little story....years ago we built an enclosed deck...cedar posts, knee-walls between them, roll-up bronze screens above-
   The house was pebble dash stucco, so we paneled the outside of the knee walls with Durock, and planned to finish coat with Dryvit-
   Now, several years before, with a different GC, I had built an addition, which we Dryvited ourselves-the whole nine yards, foam, the fiberglass mesh & cementitious base coat, and the Dryvit topcoat (may have been sandpebble, I don't recall, but it was a fine aggregate), so I had some experience with the product-
   However, the new GC subbed out the Dryvit-and the installer insisted on parging the fiberglass/cement base-coat on top of the Durock---which is, of course, cement in a fiberglass mesh!
   I don't have any doubt that you could parge the Dryvit you have right over a clean, moist foundation with good results...as lonfg as you are a good hand with a trowel ;-)

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   TJK | Aug 23, 2006 01:14am | #8

   The Dryvit sandpebble stuff can be troweled or rolled on and behaves like a very thick paint. We used it as a top coat on some brick that was parged with fibered stucco base. It was troweled on. If the walls are soiled, I would clean off any dirt or efflorescence before applying it.

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   woodroe | Aug 23, 2006 07:00am | #9

   Thanks to all. TK, your voice of experience was the answer I was looking for.